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paint some watercolors of the Coronation, and he was unable to go.

What about his brother?

His brother is an imitator, really, and much less original, and much less a fool proof colorist. Dufy had an enchanting sense of color, and perfect taste, and was original. His brother kind of lived off of Raoul Dufy's ideas. Some of the things are charming, but they're really slighter.

You have one of the best Dufys, don't you?

I have one of the best of his big paintings, yes -- the visit of Napoleon to the British battleship, which is after . That's in the country. And I have maybe eight or nine of his watercolors. I've just got a new one, a beautiful one.

I was very sad when he died. I felt he was really lighthearted and gay and reported the liveliness of a scene in a special way that was terribly enjoyable to me. He was the twentieth-century equivalent of the spirit of some Renoirs, but he had more color than most of the Impressionists.

I remember in '49, when I went to see him with my husband, with Mrs. Leonard Lyons. Mrs. Lyons is an adorable woman who is very warm and enthusiastic, and his hands were so swollen with arthritis that, when she shook his hand warmly to indicate her admiration and enthusiasm for him, he winced with